I see so many photos being shown on weather forecasts and they simply look like a photoshop masterclass. So unnatural, but looks striking for the TV. All proper photographers know they are false, but it does not stop the presenters saying how magnificent they are. Your videos are so educational. Photo editing is just for subtle, slight tweaking. You cannot fix something that is already broken.
Finally, someone who takes the light that was actually there seriously and limits themselves to subtly bring out the main interest without destroying the specialness of the moment. Why, for so many people, does every image have to look Insta-like-friendly-"epic". Don't get me wrong, there is a place in photography for stronger effects and heavier editing. But more often than not, it's the images transporting some subtle, believable, almost overlooked beauty that I find the most touching. Yeah, that may be a minority taste, I totally get it, but obviously I'm not alone.
That sequence in which you were walking about within the vertical composition…pointing to and discussing various elements…was brilliant. Putting a white margin around it, giving the appearance of a finished print, made for an extraordinary teaching tactic. More of the same, please, when appropriate. The only problem, though, is that my iPad made the live walking-and-talking view look better than the finished print. This is a function of the brilliance and contrast of the iPad screen which is difficult to avoid. But it’s a risk worth taking to enable stepping into a photo and discussing the rationale of the choices made.
I'd say that doing more local adjustments, like you showed here, versus more "global" adjustments are the way to go, and something that many people don't think a lot about (at least beginners or those new to LR or post processing). (And I would consider a radial or graduated filter to be more of a "global" edit as well even though you can refine the masks, but you don't get quite the same control you would if you just painted stuff in locally using the adjustment brush).
I would agree with Simon Payne in that if you strictly exposed for the highlights to keep some detail, the shadows likely would be way under exposed and just a black blob. I think keeping it relatively realistic is a good way to go, but you also have to expose for the shadows so you have some detail in them as well, IMO. I try not to go over board, but am sure I do, or at least in some peoples eyes. Anyway, another great video Nigel!
I really liked the third shot with the long standing rock. The way the tip anchored the edge of the far heather field helped to move through the photograph.
Loved the natural sounds of the pheasant popping through. I loved the mixture of tutorial, followed by showing where and how you took the images. Heather looked beautiful, with the mysterious foggy scene in the background. Magical. Thank you for sharing such lovely scenes.
Really liked the video, especially the Lightroom tutorial portion addressing brightening dark areas too much. I was in stitches after you entered the gate with the "Bull In Field" sign, wearing red, and talking about "the quiet and the calm, the chirp of the bird, the occasional squawk of the pheasant". I was waiting for the snorting of the charging bull. Thanks for another great start to Sunday morning.
hey Nigel, can we have a longer video where we follow you for the entire process (from planning to printing), I feel this would help people a lot, showing them how to do things they wouldn't have even thought of doing.
Morning Nigel, great video as always and as usual I learned a lot! Point of interest, the bird on the moor calling was actually a red grouse rather than a pheasant; I love grouse, I think they are synonymous with moorland and especially of heather. Looking forward to next week's video! Cheers.
Nigel, as usual I find your latest post to be very i formative. While I do not use light-room, I do not like highly stylized, edited images. Thanks for showing how to avoid the obviously "fake look", while improving an image's appeal.
Dear Nigel, I just want to tell you how much I always enjoy your videos. I have been following you now for a year and a half and your videos (and pictures!) are always inspiring me to go out. Although I am mostly a bird photographer I really enjoy doing landscape photography and learned a lot from your videos! Thank you for your inspiring work, I watch it mostly using my Apple TV on a big screen, but this time I decided to send you a thank you message.
I like the images you shot in this week's video! And I liked how you walked is through setting up the shot, explaining how you brought things together.
Kid meets candy shop! Nigel, your attention to detail and constant effort to find the most harmonious compositions within a scene is so very inspiring.
You did see on the fence "Bull in here"??? Fair dinkum mate, you wouldn''t get me in there!!! But that heather is just stunning...nothing like that here in Australia. Great photos
Bravo Nigel ! I totally agree that some photographers get carried away and overdo their exposure editing...much so that the photo after editing looks very unnatural. Its a lot more visible in photo's where skies are reflected in a puddle or pool...or even a big body of water......a watersurface has no light boosting properties nor is it a perfect mirror. It can be in the best scenario just reflect the light and colors as strong and bright as they were. Most often though a reflection is less bright and less colorfull. Its by no means only a beginning photographers mistake........have a look arround at photo's from very well known and highly admired landscapephotographers ...most of them still make these mistakes. If you point them to such mistakes they will be annoyed because they then have to admit they have made an edit that in reallity never could be. ( sorry for my bad English )
Great video! The shot of you explaining while literally walking inside the composition was very cool. I just put “heather-hunting” on my photography bucket list :)
Nigel, I think this video is up there as one of your best for all the reasons I watch. Really great Lr tips and your composition overviews were the best. Thank you for what you do!
Hi Nigel beautiful heather shots & as a newbie to Lightroom very helpful tutorial on how to use the luminosity settings & how you go about representing the scenes you shoot without going overboard. Cheers!
Very useful. I started learning LR back when it was v5 and learnt from a certain French UA-camr who always raised shadows to +100 an reduced highlights to -100. Naturally, I did the same and it was a long time before I realised I was creating a sort of unwelcome HDR effect. I note that he doesn't do this any more. Nor do I but I need to constantly nag myself as it's addictive watching more detail appear ...
Beautiful images from you week out in the heather. This weeks video about using the brush or very localized adjustments rather than more heavy handed lightening was very useful. I'm in the midst of working on some of my own images from the Palouse in Washington State and the light on the rolling hills can benefit from the approach you have described here. Thanks!
This looks like the 'Salt Cellar' on Derwent Edge. Smashing advice on an area I enjoy walking, and to be honest I feel suits the darker moodier days and lighting.
It’s similar to the salt cellar but it is on what I think is called Over Owler Tor looking towards Higger Tor which, as Nigel says it that rock formation in the distance. I have been there and I took a really similar composition last year, although not so much foreground. It’s a great spot. Unfortunately when I went the heather was out but not as vibrant. My main problem was I had my camera on a tripod with a wide lens and was closer to that interesting rock. Just as I set up, obviously about to take a photo, a couple walked into the shot, literally a few feet in front of me and stood leaning on the rock having an argument for 20 minutes. I had to stand there and wait for them to finish, this is another problem with photography at popular locations.if you’re doing wide shots people will invariably walk into the shot. Oh..and I made the mistake of doing EXACTLY what Nigel advises against, I brought out too many shadows and made the scene look unreal. Nigel’s advice is very good.
Just to hear the words 'Higger Tor' conjures up many memories of tramping the Peak District either for the pleasure of the walk itself amidst magnificent scenery or looking for that illusive shot. Cracking video - very informative as ever. And good to be shown earlier edits where as with us all, the tendency can sometimes be to go to the extreme which, though perhaps more stunning to the eye, is generally far from being realistic. The landscape heather shot, imho, is an absolute belter of a shot. Visually stunning and stuffed full of mood and grandeur in equal measure. I'm only mildly envious !
Another enjoyable video with plenty of helpful advice for editing at the start. I think that you should include the landscape shot as well. That light in the mid ground is a feature which draws the eye into the image. Thank you and see you again next Sunday.
I personally liked the very last image for your portfolio. The reason being I see two parallel diagonal lines. One in the path and the other created by the stepping down of the large rocks. My other reason for liking this is it’s overall brightness compared to the others especially the middle image at the end.
Thanks Nigel for a great video where I learnt some tips on composition and post processing. I have found a field of heather near me and I will be out tomorrow with my camera armed with tips form this video and hoping for mist!.
Finally caved and bought Lightroom for editing after using my camera's default software for a while. Already love your videos but I'm going to watch even more religiously now! Cheers and looking forward to more videos like this :)
@@kefkapalazzo1 I used Canon's Digital Photo Professional and enjoyed it for most basic adjustments! If yours works for you go for it. I just like the additional tools and options Lightroom offers as I get more into post-processing.
Great as always Nigel. I think it would be a mistake not to include the landscape image of the rock. Personally my favorite. Thanks so much for the great content and the solid advice. Cheers!
Great photos as always! I like the whole lighting part in LR as it is easy to overdo things. Did I read that sign on the fence correctly that shows there is a bull out there? Hoping that isn't an issue while you are trying to take photos. Enter at your own risk or is it not an issue? In the states, they wouldn't be out in an area like that and you wouldn't want to be out in a fenced area with one of them.
Definitely agree with you on the dominant rock in the vertical shot. As soon as that part of the video popped up, my eyes went right to it after the foreground. But I love how the rock points at the heather in the foreground. Did you try and edit that point out in LR to see how it looked? I know some would say blasphemy, but it never hurts to be curious about what might have been in a scene.
"The weather's changed so much in the last 4 days". Yeah, from wind blown and dripping to calm winds and overcast. Honestly, I don't know how you Brits can stand the constant cloud cover. ☁ Thanks so much Nigel for sharing your Lightroom tips. Much appreciated.
Hi Nigel. I'm really into my photography and hoping to do more video work in the future. Alot of the time I'm out on my own when I've done any videos or photography but I'm curious to know if you have a camera guy with you or even if you do now, did you used to do the filming yourself at any point? It's hard as I don't have friends with the same interest as me but I do love the me time also lol. Great work as always.
Hiya! I'm sure you have answered this before but daft me could not find the answer.... you use LrC instead of LR, why is that? Super helpful video btw - I have binged watched about 3 hours of your content and....I might start shooting again!
Thanks for the video, I'm "forcing" myself to let the light do the work and to quit HDR-like effects with less shadows and unnatural lighting of the foreground (if there wasn't light in the first place), as you said. If I may add my suggestion, your mist photos at the end of the video look tiny bit too flat and overexposed. I'm not sure, but giving them a more punch/contrast or controlled dehaze would make them more dramatic. Anyway, cheers, keep up the good work. :)
@Nigel Danson, you critique brightening foregrounds too much as it's not realistic but then fully edit a green summer tree scene to make the leaves orange/yellow and turn it to fall in a precious video? How do you determine when to make such drastic changes? Is it realistic to the scene?
Great channel! But this video has left me a bit confused. I thought that the camera is not as good as our eyes and brains so we try to edit so the image resembles what we see not what the camera sees. This video seems to be at odds with that?
Another terrific video, Nigel and I loved the misty pic plus the portfolio image is stunning. I was chasing the heather in the Lakes this week and planning to come to Over Owler Tor next week but it sounds like I might be too late - would it still be in bloom? Keep up the great work.
What’s up man, not sure if you’ve talked about it before, but I was wondering what camera and lens you go with? I’ve been with Canon and now with Sony and was just wondering what you use mostly. Thanks man, another great video!
I finally did it. Your remark that you extended the pre-order term made me think, I have to support him with a gesture and buy this thang, WTF continental EU tax to come. As, Nigel, you mention your paper favorite brand, Fotospeed, this being a British thing and your brand are also representing Hahnemuehle (HM - German ü is shorthand for ue), I'm not afraid to reveal here that on the other side of the big pond, I standardize to HM's baryta papers, in this, your, luminosity context. In assessing printed work, we need to be aware that the amount of light we use in there really determines how we perceive printed photographs. I have felt in the past we should set a lumen/lux value for that in competition cases. As whiter paper allows for whiter greys that make us think they're white, baryta does best - note that "we" had baryta (barium sulfate) paper already in the analog film photography days and that it is not a HM original. So, the choice of paper determines how much "pop" you can give to your prints, irrespective of lumen/lux on the paper. The second thing that the baryta does is widen dynamic range (DR). That DR is not too good on paper (I mean the reality version of on paper). The question is if it suits your style of very fine nuances with seemingly sweet softness and I opine it would do. Maybe there's a video in here for you and your Fotospeed friends to sort this all out?
That certainly is a point of view, I don't share it though. I think it all depends on what you're trying to achieve and what it is you call "realism" really. My reality is what my eye shows me. Sure, my eyes and my brain use tricks to modify what I see and make it so that I can see it better, in a way. Fine. After all that's how I perceive the world, and I have absolutely no way of knowing what the "reality" actually looks like so I might as well trust what my eyes tell me. If your definition of realism is based on what you camera sees that's completely fine (although clearly cameras are not perfect either, so it's obviously still not "reality" as you might call it), but it's a point of view. Typically if I'm taking a landscape photo, it might just be because my EYE was drawn to what it is I am trying to capture. From there, maybe the result I have in mind is similar to what my eye can see, even though my camera can't for technical reasons. And if my vision requires me to apply some extra edits, just to get it that much closer from what I originally wanted, I really don't see why I would stick to the original picture in the name of some arbitrary definition of realism. I usually try to keep my photos at least somewhat realistic, but in this case I mean realistic as in: not completely shocking to me eye. You can give me a million arguments as to why my photo shouldn't look the way it does, and you'd be right technically speaking but then, why even bother to edit your photos when you could just stick with your camera gives you? Because it might not be what you WANTED your camera to capture, that's why. Again it's all a matter of goal and vision. Beautiful photos by the way :D
I don't know how you feel about flipping images horizontally. That last image you got on the final day of shooting would look even better flipped 180. What do you think?
I think you can it for me it becomes digital art then and not a landscape photo as I perceive it. But totally fine to do it. Just do what makes you happy
Hi, Nigel! Thank you so much for your composition tips, it massively helps me to improve my own vision. I've got a question, more scientific one: at 2:05 you've mentioned that our eye do something special and because of this we actually can't see the same luminosity level as the camera sees. Has it something to do with rules of optics ( for example how light goes through the lenses to create an image) or more with the eye structure and how our eye lens, rods & cones catch the light and convert it to the image through optic nerve) ? By knowing this, I could explore more about real luminosity of the image I'm gonna capture and then edit it correctly in Lr. Thanks))
@@NigelDanson oh, great! now I know exactly where to dig deeper, it's our brain! (as usual in most cases, i should say). many Thanks for your advice, Nigel, it means the world for me. Have a wonderful day, Cheers ))
I see so many photos being shown on weather forecasts and they simply look like a photoshop masterclass. So unnatural, but looks striking for the TV. All proper photographers know they are false, but it does not stop the presenters saying how magnificent they are.
Your videos are so educational. Photo editing is just for subtle, slight tweaking. You cannot fix something that is already broken.
Loved how you walked into the scene explaining the composition - and again a great inspiring video. Thank you.
That was pure genius!
Finally, someone who takes the light that was actually there seriously and limits themselves to subtly bring out the main interest without destroying the specialness of the moment. Why, for so many people, does every image have to look Insta-like-friendly-"epic". Don't get me wrong, there is a place in photography for stronger effects and heavier editing. But more often than not, it's the images transporting some subtle, believable, almost overlooked beauty that I find the most touching. Yeah, that may be a minority taste, I totally get it, but obviously I'm not alone.
Great commentary... I fall into the trap all the time with respect for overstregthen ...
That sequence in which you were walking about within the vertical composition…pointing to and discussing various elements…was brilliant. Putting a white margin around it, giving the appearance of a finished print, made for an extraordinary teaching tactic. More of the same, please, when appropriate. The only problem, though, is that my iPad made the live walking-and-talking view look better than the finished print. This is a function of the brilliance and contrast of the iPad screen which is difficult to avoid. But it’s a risk worth taking to enable stepping into a photo and discussing the rationale of the choices made.
I hope you are not the kind of an iPad photographer.
I'd say that doing more local adjustments, like you showed here, versus more "global" adjustments are the way to go, and something that many people don't think a lot about (at least beginners or those new to LR or post processing). (And I would consider a radial or graduated filter to be more of a "global" edit as well even though you can refine the masks, but you don't get quite the same control you would if you just painted stuff in locally using the adjustment brush).
Great video not only talking a bunch about composition, but also showing how to make really great lemonade with the light not cooperating
I would agree with Simon Payne in that if you strictly exposed for the highlights to keep some detail, the shadows likely would be way under exposed and just a black blob. I think keeping it relatively realistic is a good way to go, but you also have to expose for the shadows so you have some detail in them as well, IMO. I try not to go over board, but am sure I do, or at least in some peoples eyes. Anyway, another great video Nigel!
I really liked the third shot with the long standing rock. The way the tip anchored the edge of the far heather field helped to move through the photograph.
Loved the natural sounds of the pheasant popping through. I loved the mixture of tutorial, followed by showing where and how you took the images. Heather looked beautiful, with the mysterious foggy scene in the background. Magical. Thank you for sharing such lovely scenes.
Thanks so much 😊
Thank you Nigel...keeping things looking "real" is not easy to master...I continually ask myself..."was this what I was looking at..?"
Really liked the video, especially the Lightroom tutorial portion addressing brightening dark areas too much. I was in stitches after you entered the gate with the "Bull In Field" sign, wearing red, and talking about "the quiet and the calm, the chirp of the bird, the occasional squawk of the pheasant". I was waiting for the snorting of the charging bull. Thanks for another great start to Sunday morning.
Great advice. I dodged and burned a great deal in the wet darkroom and should definitely use that tool more in the digital space.
Learning Lightroom right now, and this advice has saved me from developing bad habits.
hey Nigel,
can we have a longer video where we follow you for the entire process (from planning to printing), I feel this would help people a lot, showing them how to do things they wouldn't have even thought of doing.
I have created a Masterclass that does exactly this. Link in description 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Love the little crop tip to confine the exposure of the foreground in the absence of the distraction of the middle ground / sky
Morning Nigel, great video as always and as usual I learned a lot! Point of interest, the bird on the moor calling was actually a red grouse rather than a pheasant; I love grouse, I think they are synonymous with moorland and especially of heather. Looking forward to next week's video! Cheers.
Nigel, as usual I find your latest post to be very i formative. While I do not use light-room, I do not like highly stylized, edited images. Thanks for showing how to avoid the obviously "fake look", while improving an image's appeal.
Great adition to your portfolio Nigel. We all know how hard it is to make this videos. And especially with youtube rushing you. Amazing work.
Thank you for this reminder, it is easy to forget and incorrectly process a picture.
Really enjoyed the compositional part especially. So rare to find someone show their whole thought process and the different effects of hight
Dear Nigel, I just want to tell you how much I always enjoy your videos. I have been following you now for a year and a half and your videos (and pictures!) are always inspiring me to go out. Although I am mostly a bird photographer I really enjoy doing landscape photography and learned a lot from your videos! Thank you for your inspiring work, I watch it mostly using my Apple TV on a big screen, but this time I decided to send you a thank you message.
Awesome, thank you!
I like the images you shot in this week's video!
And I liked how you walked is through setting up the shot, explaining how you brought things together.
We got a 2 X 1 video this time! Editing and fieldwork…. Thanks for your generosity !
I almost cut it in two but felt it worked better as one video. Thanks
Kid meets candy shop! Nigel, your attention to detail and constant effort to find the most harmonious compositions within a scene is so very inspiring.
Superb tutorial. Its cool how in life we don't always get what we want, but often get what we need.
You did see on the fence "Bull in here"??? Fair dinkum mate, you wouldn''t get me in there!!! But that heather is just stunning...nothing like that here in Australia. Great photos
Bravo Nigel ! I totally agree that some photographers get carried away and overdo their exposure editing...much so that the photo after editing looks very unnatural. Its a lot more visible in photo's where skies are reflected in a puddle or pool...or even a big body of water......a watersurface has no light boosting properties nor is it a perfect mirror. It can be in the best scenario just reflect the light and colors as strong and bright as they were. Most often though a reflection is less bright and less colorfull. Its by no means only a beginning photographers mistake........have a look arround at photo's from very well known and highly admired landscapephotographers ...most of them still make these mistakes. If you point them to such mistakes they will be annoyed because they then have to admit they have made an edit that in reallity never could be. ( sorry for my bad English )
Great video! The shot of you explaining while literally walking inside the composition was very cool. I just put “heather-hunting” on my photography bucket list :)
11:40 on the fence there is a sign "Bull in field" and you are casually walking into that fenced off area wearing a red jacket, very brave! 😁
Nigel, I think this video is up there as one of your best for all the reasons I watch. Really great Lr tips and your composition overviews were the best. Thank you for what you do!
Thanks so much
Beautiful shots. Appreciate your expertise. You are so fortunate to have such wonderful terrain nearby.
We sure don’t have that here in Michigan, US.
That last shot did it for me - I ordered your beautiful calender 2022. Thanks so much Nigel.
Thanks Joseph
I really like the second image you are considering for your portfolio. I think it is truly beautiful!! Superb work Nigel. 🙂
Hi Nigel beautiful heather shots & as a newbie to Lightroom very helpful tutorial on how to use the luminosity settings & how you go about representing the scenes you shoot without going overboard. Cheers!
Thanks Sarah...
Very useful. I started learning LR back when it was v5 and learnt from a certain French UA-camr who always raised shadows to +100 an reduced highlights to -100. Naturally, I did the same and it was a long time before I realised I was creating a sort of unwelcome HDR effect. I note that he doesn't do this any more. Nor do I but I need to constantly nag myself as it's addictive watching more detail appear ...
As a total newbie your videos and advice are inspiring. ty
Beautiful images from you week out in the heather. This weeks video about using the brush or very localized adjustments rather than more heavy handed lightening was very useful. I'm in the midst of working on some of my own images from the Palouse in Washington State and the light on the rolling hills can benefit from the approach you have described here. Thanks!
All three sound fantastic.
just love the vertical version of the Crimson Tor so much! great video Nigel and great 'Lr' editing advise!
Glad you liked it!
This looks like the 'Salt Cellar' on Derwent Edge. Smashing advice on an area I enjoy walking, and to be honest I feel suits the darker moodier days and lighting.
It’s similar to the salt cellar but it is on what I think is called Over Owler Tor looking towards Higger Tor which, as Nigel says it that rock formation in the distance. I have been there and I took a really similar composition last year, although not so much foreground. It’s a great spot. Unfortunately when I went the heather was out but not as vibrant. My main problem was I had my camera on a tripod with a wide lens and was closer to that interesting rock. Just as I set up, obviously about to take a photo, a couple walked into the shot, literally a few feet in front of me and stood leaning on the rock having an argument for 20 minutes. I had to stand there and wait for them to finish, this is another problem with photography at popular locations.if you’re doing wide shots people will invariably walk into the shot. Oh..and I made the mistake of doing EXACTLY what Nigel advises against, I brought out too many shadows and made the scene look unreal. Nigel’s advice is very good.
@@jonnyfez nice one, a new walk for me to try :)
The heather photos are exquisite.
I learn something from you every time, and your strong images always inspire me.
Just to hear the words 'Higger Tor' conjures up many memories of tramping the Peak District either for the pleasure of the walk itself amidst magnificent scenery or looking for that illusive shot. Cracking video - very informative as ever. And good to be shown earlier edits where as with us all, the tendency can sometimes be to go to the extreme which, though perhaps more stunning to the eye, is generally far from being realistic. The landscape heather shot, imho, is an absolute belter of a shot. Visually stunning and stuffed full of mood and grandeur in equal measure. I'm only mildly envious !
Great images and education regards your thought process and use of Lr (for me at least). Loved the video really enjoyable.
Another enjoyable video with plenty of helpful advice for editing at the start. I think that you should include the landscape shot as well. That light in the mid ground is a feature which draws the eye into the image. Thank you and see you again next Sunday.
Heather season is so amazing. Thanks for all the great pointer and tips...
It's a VERY Cool idea to talk through the composition literally inside the frame!!!:P
Such an encouraging and practical channel. Thank you👍
I understand focus stacking, but interested in how you use it and why, do you have a video on it ?
I personally liked the very last image for your portfolio. The reason being I see two parallel diagonal lines. One in the path and the other created by the stepping down of the large rocks. My other reason for liking this is it’s overall brightness compared to the others especially the middle image at the end.
Thanks - and yes it was brighter as it represented the mood of the day better
As a heather landscape photography fan I’ve enjoyed this video very much! Good tip!
Thanks Nigel for a great video where I learnt some tips on composition and post processing. I have found a field of heather near me and I will be out tomorrow with my camera armed with tips form this video and hoping for mist!.
Mega editing tip!! Thank you! Definitely something I like to try as keep in mind. Great video!
Finally caved and bought Lightroom for editing after using my camera's default software for a while. Already love your videos but I'm going to watch even more religiously now! Cheers and looking forward to more videos like this :)
I heard the default software is good though
@@kefkapalazzo1 I used Canon's Digital Photo Professional and enjoyed it for most basic adjustments! If yours works for you go for it. I just like the additional tools and options Lightroom offers as I get more into post-processing.
Great tips Nige, I always get caught out with this problem.
Great advice. Something I always need to remind myself about.
Great as always Nigel. I think it would be a mistake not to include the landscape image of the rock. Personally my favorite. Thanks so much for the great content and the solid advice. Cheers!
I will
Great photos as always! I like the whole lighting part in LR as it is easy to overdo things. Did I read that sign on the fence correctly that shows there is a bull out there? Hoping that isn't an issue while you are trying to take photos. Enter at your own risk or is it not an issue? In the states, they wouldn't be out in an area like that and you wouldn't want to be out in a fenced area with one of them.
Definitely agree with you on the dominant rock in the vertical shot. As soon as that part of the video popped up, my eyes went right to it after the foreground. But I love how the rock points at the heather in the foreground. Did you try and edit that point out in LR to see how it looked? I know some would say blasphemy, but it never hurts to be curious about what might have been in a scene.
😂😂 I love the whispering at the end as not to upset the scene
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@@NigelDanson I thought it was because you didn't want to draw attention from the bull in the paddock noted on the gate sign. Lovely video, as always.
Stunning photos ! Thank you so much for this video!
Super video - going to go back over some of my recent edits as I have probably overdone them. Love the shots in the mist1
"The weather's changed so much in the last 4 days". Yeah, from wind blown and dripping to calm winds and overcast. Honestly, I don't know how you Brits can stand the constant cloud cover. ☁ Thanks so much Nigel for sharing your Lightroom tips. Much appreciated.
I love clouds! 🙈😂
As always excellent advice! The images are stunning! Thanks!
Thank You for all of your videos that you did. I am enjoying all of them
Hi Nigel. I'm really into my photography and hoping to do more video work in the future.
Alot of the time I'm out on my own when I've done any videos or photography but I'm curious to know if you have a camera guy with you or even if you do now, did you used to do the filming yourself at any point?
It's hard as I don't have friends with the same interest as me but I do love the me time also lol.
Great work as always.
Hiya! I'm sure you have answered this before but daft me could not find the answer.... you use LrC instead of LR, why is that?
Super helpful video btw - I have binged watched about 3 hours of your content and....I might start shooting again!
Thanks for the video, I'm "forcing" myself to let the light do the work and to quit HDR-like effects with less shadows and unnatural lighting of the foreground (if there wasn't light in the first place), as you said. If I may add my suggestion, your mist photos at the end of the video look tiny bit too flat and overexposed. I'm not sure, but giving them a more punch/contrast or controlled dehaze would make them more dramatic. Anyway, cheers, keep up the good work. :)
Beautiful location and photos Nigel !
Morning Nigel. really like video. I saw gorgeous pictures and great tutorial. 🍎💪
Stunning images, great video!
Interesting video Nigel. I use LR for most of my editing so this was educational. Thank you for sharing!
Enjoyed the composition tips; thank you!
Beautiful area and shots by the way
Fantastic and inspirational content, as always.
Loved all these images! Wonderful episode 🙂
Thank you Nigel for the amazing tutorial. This one is so helpful
Gorgeous heather images especially in the foggy conditions 😁👍🏻
Lovely photos indeed
@Nigel Danson, you critique brightening foregrounds too much as it's not realistic but then fully edit a green summer tree scene to make the leaves orange/yellow and turn it to fall in a precious video? How do you determine when to make such drastic changes? Is it realistic to the scene?
Great video as usual , love the pictures Nigel. Where is pebbles? Never seen him in your video for a while
Great channel! But this video has left me a bit confused. I thought that the camera is not as good as our eyes and brains so we try to edit so the image resembles what we see not what the camera sees. This video seems to be at odds with that?
11:38 i´m glad you got not hit by the bull in the field!
Another terrific video, Nigel and I loved the misty pic plus the portfolio image is stunning. I was chasing the heather in the Lakes this week and planning to come to Over Owler Tor next week but it sounds like I might be too late - would it still be in bloom? Keep up the great work.
Thanks Nigel for this video. Learned a lot! Think the foto’s you Made fit all in your portfolio! Wish that your failures were in my portfolio. 😀
Warning "Bull in field" and the red jacket :), great video as usually
great as always✌🏻
What’s up man, not sure if you’ve talked about it before, but I was wondering what camera and lens you go with? I’ve been with Canon and now with Sony and was just wondering what you use mostly. Thanks man, another great video!
Thank you.
I finally did it. Your remark that you extended the pre-order term made me think, I have to support him with a gesture and buy this thang, WTF continental EU tax to come. As, Nigel, you mention your paper favorite brand, Fotospeed, this being a British thing and your brand are also representing Hahnemuehle (HM - German ü is shorthand for ue), I'm not afraid to reveal here that on the other side of the big pond, I standardize to HM's baryta papers, in this, your, luminosity context. In assessing printed work, we need to be aware that the amount of light we use in there really determines how we perceive printed photographs. I have felt in the past we should set a lumen/lux value for that in competition cases. As whiter paper allows for whiter greys that make us think they're white, baryta does best - note that "we" had baryta (barium sulfate) paper already in the analog film photography days and that it is not a HM original. So, the choice of paper determines how much "pop" you can give to your prints, irrespective of lumen/lux on the paper. The second thing that the baryta does is widen dynamic range (DR). That DR is not too good on paper (I mean the reality version of on paper). The question is if it suits your style of very fine nuances with seemingly sweet softness and I opine it would do. Maybe there's a video in here for you and your Fotospeed friends to sort this all out?
Thanks!
I love your channel :) Quality videos and tips
That certainly is a point of view, I don't share it though. I think it all depends on what you're trying to achieve and what it is you call "realism" really.
My reality is what my eye shows me. Sure, my eyes and my brain use tricks to modify what I see and make it so that I can see it better, in a way. Fine. After all that's how I perceive the world,
and I have absolutely no way of knowing what the "reality" actually looks like so I might as well trust what my eyes tell me.
If your definition of realism is based on what you camera sees that's completely fine (although clearly cameras are not perfect either, so it's obviously still not "reality" as you might call it), but it's a point of view.
Typically if I'm taking a landscape photo, it might just be because my EYE was drawn to what it is I am trying to capture. From there, maybe the result I have in mind is similar to what my eye can see,
even though my camera can't for technical reasons. And if my vision requires me to apply some extra edits, just to get it that much closer from what I originally wanted, I really don't see why I would
stick to the original picture in the name of some arbitrary definition of realism. I usually try to keep my photos at least somewhat realistic, but in this case I mean realistic as in: not completely shocking to me eye.
You can give me a million arguments as to why my photo shouldn't look the way it does, and you'd be right technically speaking but then, why even bother to edit your photos when you could just stick with your camera gives you? Because it might not be what you WANTED your camera to capture, that's why. Again it's all a matter of goal and vision.
Beautiful photos by the way :D
Loved the video, as usual, by the way your pheasant is actually a red grouse.
I definitely think the other image deserves to be added to your portfolio.
I don't know how you feel about flipping images horizontally. That last image you got on the final day of shooting would look even better flipped 180. What do you think?
Um no. You can do that with people in studio but doing that a scene is retarded and not reality.
@@donquique1 Why does it have to be reality and not just a beautiful image with better composition? I do understand your point though.
I think you can it for me it becomes digital art then and not a landscape photo as I perceive it. But totally fine to do it. Just do what makes you happy
Hi Nigel, i would be interested to know which plug-in you used for the insertion at 13:19, if you use Final Cut.
It is premier
Thanks Nigel, I guess I'll have to keep looking until I find something nice.
Watching Nigel, and I realize there's still 2 hours until sunrise. 🌞 I should be sleeping. 🛏💤
All 3 mate . 👍
Nice images. What printer and paper do you use?
Hi, Nigel! Thank you so much for your composition tips, it massively helps me to improve my own vision. I've got a question, more scientific one: at 2:05 you've mentioned that our eye do something special and because of this we actually can't see the same luminosity level as the camera sees.
Has it something to do with rules of optics ( for example how light goes through the lenses to create an image) or more with the eye structure and how our eye lens, rods & cones catch the light and convert it to the image through optic nerve) ?
By knowing this, I could explore more about real luminosity of the image I'm gonna capture and then edit it correctly in Lr. Thanks))
It is more to do with how your brain processes an image. It is very clever at brightening the shadows.
@@NigelDanson oh, great! now I know exactly where to dig deeper, it's our brain! (as usual in most cases, i should say).
many Thanks for your advice, Nigel, it means the world for me.
Have a wonderful day,
Cheers ))